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Stretching is B.S.

I received a lot of questions regarding my article about stretching and many of them fall in the category of ‘when I stretch, I feel better. How can you explain that?’ While such questions could be discarded as empirical evidence for being completely anecdotal, I’m a pragmatist myself and if stretch…

A recent study by Warneke et al is the first great proof-of-concept study investigating the direct impact of stretching on muscle growth.

When a single kilo on the bar or a hundredth of a second on the clock can mean the difference between first and second place, we want to be able to tease out the effects of every aspect of preparation. Of particular interest is stretching and whether or not it should be a part of athletes’ warm-up r…

I’m always looking for advanced training techniques to maximize muscle hypertrophy. Most have pros and cons and are only situationally effective, so I was excited to see there’s a new study by Evangelista et al. (2019) finding increased muscle growth with an inter-set stretching technique. Here’s my…

The study reviewed is “Effect of the flexibility training performed immediately before resistance training on muscle hypertrophy, maximum strength and flexibility” by Junior et al.